#age

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#america #bat #be happy #between #boy

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#compassion #courage #great #nation #resilience

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#amount #bombarded #days #get #hard

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. ↗

— Dora Russell

#human #incompetence #laws #mark #marriage

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#anything #before #claims #else #enlightenment

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. ↗

— Larry Elder

#crow #depression #during #father #great

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#certificates #contrary #degrading #desire #earth

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#easy #find #images #more #offer

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. ↗

— George Saunders

#aspire #die #fail #pontificate #posture

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#decline #had #languages #their